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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.”
― Diana Gabaldon (Jamie Fraser)

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”
― Diana Gabaldon

“Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”
― Diana Gabaldon

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.”
― Rosamund lupton, Sister

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“And even if prayer seems futile and unnecessary, even if tears are quite often your only food - "day and night," as the psalmist said (Ps. 42:3) - hope still lives because God still loves.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“So let us step into this river of peace - bravely, willingly - undaunted by the swiftness of the current and the unknowns of the passage ahead.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“The hurt means you're alive. It means your body is reacting and willing to fight - both to fight back and fight through it. So rather than running from grief's harsh reality, you may find that in letting it groan and pierce and ache and cry, you begin to exhaust some of its staying power. You expose its secret hiding places. You force it into the open air where it can be more easily outlined and dealt with.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“And He never stops absorbing the part of our pain we could never endure without Him.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“He is willing to just sit with us in our grief and not judge us for being so lost about what to do.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“You must keep your senses trained to the presence of new or repeat thought patterns, not allowing them eight-lane freedom to run up and down inside your head without being pulled over for closer inspection. Staying renewed in mind means keeping the floodlights on and the alarm systems triggered, ever on the watch for intruders into your mental living space.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“And I beg you to try rallying enough courage to tell them what's going on so they can support you with their love and sit with you in your sadness.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“More important, I know what I've seen God do, up close, right here in my own family, silently comforting us inside closets of darkness so black and siffocating I didn't realize they actually existed on earth and, if they did, how they could possibly be endured.”
― Frank Page, Melissa: A Father's Lessons from a Daughter's Suicide

“I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis